i am hoping so.. its htst a matter of finding which post is causing the probs and then finding it in the db an deleting it then running maint again hopefully. i just hope it isn't from an old attack that i / we never noticed at the time

And don't forget that I made a temporary topic and then copied each post, one at a time from your "split" topic and added it to my temporary topic hoping to find a post that was the bad actor. Had copied them all over and my temporary topic still worked fine. So it didn't appear to be any hidden characters in any of the post causing the problem.I then deleted my temporary test topic.

hmm.. could be something in someones signature or name ..or avatar pic is there anone that has somewthing strange in that msg thats not in any others .. but that wouldn't explain why its showing up for guests fine.

I'm hoping to issue a new maintenance release to the IWBasic 3.x IDE in the next few weeks and Larry Sikes has released an update to the Linux version of IWBasic and is currently working on the 64bit version of IWBasic. Progress should speed up since he has retired and has apparently resolved his m